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i took my mother-in-law to the airport. >> reporter: ... like milton berle and george burns added to stages of big catskills hotels to their list of must stops. >> there was grossingers the concorde. >> 3,000 people. kut was 1500 people. >> reporter: they were packed? they were packed. reporter: if you are of a certain age and from a certain area, chances are these scenes certainly look familiar. and you might even be familiar with stewy stone. >> my applause. how many people still remember the concorde hotel? was that a great part of our life? the catskills. >> reporter: one of so many comedians who made names for themselves in the borscht belt. >> you know, when we started everybody did the same jokes. you would do a joke. i heard this yesterday you know. >> reporter: it hurts. every time we did the same joke. a woman goes to the hospital. i want to see my husband. he's dead. she said give him anen ma. it wouldn't help. it wouldn't hurt. every comic did that joke. >> reporter: the comics needed quick witts and thick skins. the audiences w
i took my mother-in-law to the airport. >> reporter: ... like milton berle and george burns added to stages of big catskills hotels to their list of must stops. >> there was grossingers the concorde. >> 3,000 people. kut was 1500 people. >> reporter: they were packed? they were packed. reporter: if you are of a certain age and from a certain area, chances are these scenes certainly look familiar. and you might even be familiar with stewy stone. >> my applause. how...
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law enforcement and intelligence agencies are racing to learn. was there foreign help or training? older brother tamerlan spent six months overseas last year. he went to chechnya, areas where islamic extremists and violent chechen separatists are known to operate. >> he was away for six months. was that long enough to have done what? >> that's long enough to have done a lot of things. if you're motivated, have the connections, there's plenty of time there to be initiated into a group, receive training and potentially a lot of training. >> reporter: robert mcfadden is a former agent in the n.c.i.s., the naval criminal investigative service. his 30-plus years experience in counterterrorism includes work on the al qaeda bombing of the u.s.s. coal in 2000. >> something just blew up. reporter: mcfadden believes the number one priority of investigators is to be sure there are no accomplices still at large. >> are there other events coming? what other events are planned and doing everything possible to rule out that there could be other terrorist acts in place and do everything possible t
law enforcement and intelligence agencies are racing to learn. was there foreign help or training? older brother tamerlan spent six months overseas last year. he went to chechnya, areas where islamic extremists and violent chechen separatists are known to operate. >> he was away for six months. was that long enough to have done what? >> that's long enough to have done a lot of things. if you're motivated, have the connections, there's plenty of time there to be initiated into a...
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a few on that from lewis michael sideman professor of constitutional law at georgetown university. >> i've got a simple idea. let's give up on the constitution. i know. it sounds radical but it's really not. constitutional disobedience is as american as apple pie. for example most of our greatest presidents -- jefferson, lincoln wilson and both roosevelts -- had doubts about the constitution. many of them disobeyed it when it got in their way. to be clear, i don't think we should give up on everything in the constitution. the constitution has many important and inspiring provisions but we should obey these because they are important and inspiring not because a bunch of people who are now long dead favored them two centuries ago. unfortunately, the constitution also contains some provisions that are not so inspiring. for example one allows a presidential candidate who is rejected by a majority of the american people to assume office. suppose that barack obama really wasn't a natural-born citizen? so what? constitutional obedience has a pernicious impact on our political culture. take t
a few on that from lewis michael sideman professor of constitutional law at georgetown university. >> i've got a simple idea. let's give up on the constitution. i know. it sounds radical but it's really not. constitutional disobedience is as american as apple pie. for example most of our greatest presidents -- jefferson, lincoln wilson and both roosevelts -- had doubts about the constitution. many of them disobeyed it when it got in their way. to be clear, i don't think we should give up...
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. >> reporter: james is a law professor at stanford university and coauthor of a paper critical of u.s. drone use. >> these are of shrapnel. reporter: he and his team went to pakistan. >> we don't hear enough about the costs. civilians killed. civilians injured. destruction of communities. growth of anti-americanism. and fomenting recruitment for terrorist groups. all of that is considered there are serious doubts about whether drones are the best option. >> reporter: administration policy makers believe drones often are the best option. for keeping american soldiers out of harm's way. >> the thing that we called war is being changed by this technology. >> reporter: peter singer is a senior fellow at the brookings institution. >> it's allowed us to disconnect two things that used to go hand in hand in war. the destructive side but also the risk of sending people into action. now you're able to separate them. and not have a huge impact. >> reporter: and here's something you may not know. the vast majority of the 8,000 or so drones in use by the u.s. military don't look like this. they'r
. >> reporter: james is a law professor at stanford university and coauthor of a paper critical of u.s. drone use. >> these are of shrapnel. reporter: he and his team went to pakistan. >> we don't hear enough about the costs. civilians killed. civilians injured. destruction of communities. growth of anti-americanism. and fomenting recruitment for terrorist groups. all of that is considered there are serious doubts about whether drones are the best option. >> reporter:...
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the director loves cars enough to make them look as if they're subject to the laws of gravity rather than the algorithms of computer programmers. the reckless driver is is touched by grace. in limited release there's richard linkletter's before midnight. the third film starring ethan hawk inas kindred souls who met animated on a train and before sunrise fell out of touch and reunited in before sunset and have now been together long enough to lament the loss of magic and get on each other's nerves. >> okay. why can't you just say yes. >> i said of course. wanted you to say something romantic and you blew it. >> it's a triumph of naturalism. you watch their conversations zig and zag in long single takes and almost believe they're thinking up the lines as they go along. >> see, i'm trying to truly connect and you make a joke. >> reporter: where else can a shot of two people talking feel this full? it's the one movie around that doesn't seem "by the numbers." >> osgood: film critic david edelstein. now to bob scheiffer in washington for a lookate at what's ahead on face the nation. good
the director loves cars enough to make them look as if they're subject to the laws of gravity rather than the algorithms of computer programmers. the reckless driver is is touched by grace. in limited release there's richard linkletter's before midnight. the third film starring ethan hawk inas kindred souls who met animated on a train and before sunrise fell out of touch and reunited in before sunset and have now been together long enough to lament the loss of magic and get on each other's...
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born poor in the bronx koch worked his way through college and law school and up through new york city politics, winning his first term as mayor in 1977 in the wake of the city's fiscal crisis. >> we have to spend the monies that are currently available in a much better way. >> reporter: as mayor he worked hard to balance the books and to clean up that once proud cross roads times square. >> people were no longer coming down to times square. you had x-rated video houses. you had thieves. families wouldn't come down there anymore. >> reporter: our rita braver talked to ed koch just last year. >> reporter: you really didn't like criticism? >> i fought back. i mean, i said new york city and myself we're not punching bags. you hit us, we hit you back. >> osgood: koch's style won him a lot of supporters not to mention two more terms as mayor. but his handling of race relations and the aids crisis won him detractors as well. when he sought a fourth term in 1989, the voters let him know they had had enough. >> they threw me out. people would say to me, oh, mayor, you must run again. you must
born poor in the bronx koch worked his way through college and law school and up through new york city politics, winning his first term as mayor in 1977 in the wake of the city's fiscal crisis. >> we have to spend the monies that are currently available in a much better way. >> reporter: as mayor he worked hard to balance the books and to clean up that once proud cross roads times square. >> people were no longer coming down to times square. you had x-rated video houses. you...
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first and foremost she wants a nationwide good samaritan law. >> this law will allow anybody who is with someone who is overdosing, they can dial 911 without fear of getting charges put against them. >> reporter: illinois is one of only 14 states with overdose-related good samaritan laws on the books. and she wants people to know about a heroin antidote: meloxon which can neutralize the drug's effects and save the life of someone who is overdosing. >> distribution can cut the des in half. >> reporter: the researcher says this drug should be widely available over the counter. >> i want to make sure that no more people die. our goal is to reduce overdose to 0 in ten years. that might not be an achievable goal but if we can reduce it by 50%, that would be a big deal. >> reporter: a year after her son's death, caroline stays in touch with his friends. all of them haunted by how heroin has shattered their once comfortable lives. all still struggling with an addiction they now know will last a lifetime. >> if you want all your dreams to go down the toilet, use heroin. >> reporter: they have le
first and foremost she wants a nationwide good samaritan law. >> this law will allow anybody who is with someone who is overdosing, they can dial 911 without fear of getting charges put against them. >> reporter: illinois is one of only 14 states with overdose-related good samaritan laws on the books. and she wants people to know about a heroin antidote: meloxon which can neutralize the drug's effects and save the life of someone who is overdosing. >> distribution can cut the...
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as his law partner william herndon later wrote continuing thinking on the subject of lifting vessels over sand bars and other subjects in the water suggested to him an idea of inventing an apparatus for this purpose. the next year came lincoln's solution, a ship equipped with chambers along the side that could be lowered into the water and inflated like balloons to lift the vessel over the obstruction. just two months after filing his application he received approval making him the only u.s. president to ever have received a patent. even william herndon thought the whole contraption was practical and in the end the only one ever built was lincoln's scale model which now sits in the smithsonian institution high and dry. >> osgood: coming up, sushi anyone? i'm doing my own sleep study. advil pm® or tylenol pm.® the advil pm® guy is spending less time lying awake with annoying aches and pains and more time asleep. advil pm®. the difference is a better night's sleep. [ male announcer ] when you're going the distance it's nice to have the experience and commitment to go along with you
as his law partner william herndon later wrote continuing thinking on the subject of lifting vessels over sand bars and other subjects in the water suggested to him an idea of inventing an apparatus for this purpose. the next year came lincoln's solution, a ship equipped with chambers along the side that could be lowered into the water and inflated like balloons to lift the vessel over the obstruction. just two months after filing his application he received approval making him the only u.s....
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may 5, 1865, 148 years ago, the day law and order went off the rails. for it was on a rail line west of cincinatti that day that a train was robbed by an armed gang, possibly die-hard confederate guerillas upset with the south's surrender. while everything was wild confusion, one newspaper reported, the desperadoes entered and with the vilest oaths demanded the money and the valuables of the passengers. the first train robbery in the united states, by smrek onings, was hard hardly the last. over the next two decades lawmen scrambled to catch people like the notorious jesse james even as the gunman's daring deeds captured the public's imagination. the crime wave inspired the landmark 1903 film "the great train robbery." >> that ought to do it. osgood: while many years later in 1969, paul newman and robert redford portrayed the exploits of the robbers known as butch cassidy and the sun dance kid. >> do you think you used enough dynamite there, butch? >> osgood: though the days of armed passenger train robberies are behind us, freight train theft remains a
may 5, 1865, 148 years ago, the day law and order went off the rails. for it was on a rail line west of cincinatti that day that a train was robbed by an armed gang, possibly die-hard confederate guerillas upset with the south's surrender. while everything was wild confusion, one newspaper reported, the desperadoes entered and with the vilest oaths demanded the money and the valuables of the passengers. the first train robbery in the united states, by smrek onings, was hard hardly the last....
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. >> can you imagine her as your mother-in-law? i could fix you. >> reporter: this is the first play you've ever written. >> and the last. reporter: later on sunday morning, holland taylor on becoming ann. >> osgood: what to expect when you're expecting is the title of a book that has succeeded far beyond anyone's expectations including its authors. she looks back upon it this morning with our tracy smith. >> reporter: when heidi murkoff was a scared young mother-to-be, she had nowhere to turn for answers so she wrote a sort of who-to book for pregnancy. you might have seen it. how many years has it been on the "new york times" best seller list? >> i think somewhere around 600 weeks. >> not long now. . reporter: now her baby is having a baby. ahead on sunday morning, what to expect when you're about to be a grandmother? >> osgood: aaron neville is a singer with an unmistakable voice and a long career of his to go with it. he also has had his share of trouble with anthony mason we'll give his songs and story a listen. >> reporter: a
. >> can you imagine her as your mother-in-law? i could fix you. >> reporter: this is the first play you've ever written. >> and the last. reporter: later on sunday morning, holland taylor on becoming ann. >> osgood: what to expect when you're expecting is the title of a book that has succeeded far beyond anyone's expectations including its authors. she looks back upon it this morning with our tracy smith. >> reporter: when heidi murkoff was a scared young...
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. >> you're going to go too far for me one day, old lady who plays mother watts daughter-in-law. >> it takes me back to when i was a kid lying in bed watching tv and watching her in miss jane pitman. those were the performances that made me want to be an actress. >> reporter: really? absolutely. her image was part of what educated us about slavery, abbot her eerience as a black woman that she portrayed, you know, beautifully in the pieces and in the work that she did. >> reporter: in a recent sunday service at the east gate baptist church back in texas, tyson was again in research mode. something else to take back to broadway. her fans look on her as much as a beacon of social conscience as an award-winning actress. cicely tyson seems quite happy to play both those roles. she won't confirm just how old she really is. by some accounts she's 88. do you think you're ever going to retire? >> there's no age limit on this. i'm not jane pitman. >> reporter: that could be you. osgood: ahead... >> reporter: that could be you. osgood: ahead... what are you guys crazy or something. >> osgood: ...
. >> you're going to go too far for me one day, old lady who plays mother watts daughter-in-law. >> it takes me back to when i was a kid lying in bed watching tv and watching her in miss jane pitman. those were the performances that made me want to be an actress. >> reporter: really? absolutely. her image was part of what educated us about slavery, abbot her eerience as a black woman that she portrayed, you know, beautifully in the pieces and in the work that she did. >>...
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reporter: in the 30 years since it was invented, the glock has become a favorite of both law enforcement, like the f.b.i., and outlaw dictator. when saddam hussein was found in his hideout in 2003 he was carrying a glock. >> glock has become more than a successful gun. it's become cool. it's become cool. it's become synonymous with that article of commerce, with the handgun. >> reporter: paul barrett is the author of a biography of the firearm called "glock: the rise of america's gun." we met him at the show in las vegas. the audience here at this show is principally gun dealers. >> that's correct. you have people who are involved in all aspects of selling and marketing guns and also all the accoutrements. >> reporter: how big a presence is glock on the floor now? >> no handgun manufacturer has a bigger presence. it is the biggest and most influential. two-thirds of all american police departments use the glock. >> reporter: how did an austrian gun eclipse brands like colt and smith & wesson to become an american icon? the weapon is is named for the man who created it in 1982 for the aus
reporter: in the 30 years since it was invented, the glock has become a favorite of both law enforcement, like the f.b.i., and outlaw dictator. when saddam hussein was found in his hideout in 2003 he was carrying a glock. >> glock has become more than a successful gun. it's become cool. it's become cool. it's become synonymous with that article of commerce, with the handgun. >> reporter: paul barrett is the author of a biography of the firearm called "glock: the rise of...
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texas governor rick perry he'll sign a new restrictive abortion bill into law and claims it will withstand court challenges. texas state senate approved the bill this weekend. it prohibits abortion after 20 weeks and places new limits on doctors and abortion facilities. a six-year-old buried under 11 feet of sand in indiana on friday is said to be responsive and is expected to survive. the boy was playing at a do you know on the lake michigan shore when it collapsed. it took rescuers more than three hours to dig him out. the child was found within an air pocket in the sand. now the forecast. most of us should expect typical july warmth with storms likely in the southeast and the plains. the week ahead will bring more midsummer heat as well as monsoon-like rains out west. >> osgood: next. imagine how wonderful it would be to live in a house like this. >> osgood: the future, a short history. >> what was a sandy beach... osgood: and later, jeremy irons. >> ... has been replace,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: yesterday's tomorrow was a wondrous place, full of amazing gaj hes and technologies to change our
texas governor rick perry he'll sign a new restrictive abortion bill into law and claims it will withstand court challenges. texas state senate approved the bill this weekend. it prohibits abortion after 20 weeks and places new limits on doctors and abortion facilities. a six-year-old buried under 11 feet of sand in indiana on friday is said to be responsive and is expected to survive. the boy was playing at a do you know on the lake michigan shore when it collapsed. it took rescuers more than...
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. >> osgood: mo rocca will unearth some little known chapters of inauguration law. dean reynolds has the latest on the sports tale like none other. we'll say our farewells to dear abby and more. but first the headlines for this sunday morning the 20th of january, 2013. to begin we go straight to washington and bill plant. >> reporter: charlie, never mind that big swearing-in ceremony tomorrow at the capital followed by the luncheon and then the inaugural balls and the parade. the constitution says that the term of the president ends at noon on january 20. and that's why the swearing-in ceremony that will take place here today at the white house is the official one. vice president joe biden has sworn in earlier this morning in his residence at the naval observatory. president obama begins this day at arlington national cemetery. he'll be joined by the vice president for a replaying ceremony honoring the nation's war dead. later chief justice john roberts will arrive at the white house. and at five minutes before noon here in the east, he will administer the oath of o
. >> osgood: mo rocca will unearth some little known chapters of inauguration law. dean reynolds has the latest on the sports tale like none other. we'll say our farewells to dear abby and more. but first the headlines for this sunday morning the 20th of january, 2013. to begin we go straight to washington and bill plant. >> reporter: charlie, never mind that big swearing-in ceremony tomorrow at the capital followed by the luncheon and then the inaugural balls and the parade. the...
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government to file civil rights charges against zimmerman and to make changes in state self-defense laws like the one in florida. zimmerman was acquitted in the killing eight days ago. police in arlington texas believe a woman who fell to her death from a roler coaster at the six flags amusement park was not the victim of foul play. the coaster is known as the texas giant. at its peak it's 14 stories high. three bodies have been discovered in the cleveland suburb of east cleveland, ohio, since friday. police fear that they may find others. investigators are questioning a possible suspect who they say admits being fascinated by a serial killer who murdered 11 women in the same area. as we mentioned, one of washington's legendary white house reporters helen thomas died yesterday. she was 92. thomas was a trail blazer for women in the press corps. we have an appreciation later on sunday morning. now today's forecast. cooler temperatures will prevail from the northeast up past the great lakes. heavy storms are likely in the south. the week ahead is expected to be warm and muggy and rainy. so
government to file civil rights charges against zimmerman and to make changes in state self-defense laws like the one in florida. zimmerman was acquitted in the killing eight days ago. police in arlington texas believe a woman who fell to her death from a roler coaster at the six flags amusement park was not the victim of foul play. the coaster is known as the texas giant. at its peak it's 14 stories high. three bodies have been discovered in the cleveland suburb of east cleveland, ohio, since...
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by law today is inauguration day. the big public ceremony won't take place until tomorrow. a short while ago supreme court justice administered the office to vice president biden. president obama will take the oath a little later this morning. in good times and bad we expect the president to be leading the way for the rest of us. how well past presidents have done in that regard is a question that keeps historians busy. barry pederson will have our cover story. >> i franklin delano roosevelt... >> reporter: 43 men have held the office of president, but only a handful seem to stand out in history's rear view mirror. >> washington, lincoln. reporter: every historian has a list of favorites. >> they had courage. and they had integrity. >> reporter: the presidents who were our greatest leaders and why. later on sunday morning. >> osgood: a presidential limosine it is not but a brand new version of a much belovedded sports car promised fast company for those with a taste of style and speed. lee cowan will be taking us for a test drive. >> reporter: some are describing chevy's ne
by law today is inauguration day. the big public ceremony won't take place until tomorrow. a short while ago supreme court justice administered the office to vice president biden. president obama will take the oath a little later this morning. in good times and bad we expect the president to be leading the way for the rest of us. how well past presidents have done in that regard is a question that keeps historians busy. barry pederson will have our cover story. >> i franklin delano...